For some reason ... this kidding season had been a hard and difficult one. After talking to some of the biggest breeders in the United States recently ... I am told I am NOT the only one having hard and dangerous kiddings.
My hubby swears it is all the chemtrails that have been dropped on us since everything else is the same,and I have never had such a hard year before. I was thinking GMO grains? Hay treated with too much chemical crap?
Anyway ... on to my little sweetie. I wish I could post pictures but a computer whiz I am not so ...
Last Thursday one of my first freshners started her kidding. Bad deal cause she was 6 days too early. And, yes I knew for sure cause I took this doe to the buck. And, only one time.
Everything seemed normal but two were born dead but fully developed. One came breech, the other a normal presentation.
Then out popped this little tiny buck. I grabbed him up and rushed him into the house.
He nursed one time on the bottle, then seemed to have lost his sucking reflex. His neck was suddenly loose, and he was not able to hold his head up.
Instead of trying to get him to nurse on a nipple I used a syringe and fed him once every two hours for two days. On the third day he was standing, nursing and trying to do the baby goat dance steps! LOL!
Since he has no littermates to snuggle with I used hot water in pop bottles, towels, and a med. sized box to keep him in my kitchen. Once he was doing better I moved him into my guest bathtub. Yesterday I found him sleeping on the rugs in the bathroom after escaping his bed in the tub, twice in a row.
After the 7 pm feeding last night he moved into the barn with one of his half sisters!! She is upset but he thinks she is GREAT! He loves to tag along with her no matter where she goes. She thinks he is a pest!
I was emailing with one of the most important breeders of LaManchas in the states yesterday. She told me nearly all babies die when they are born as early as these three were. In all honesty she told me that this little guy SHOULD not have made it either.
She told me ... He is ONE LUCKY DUDE! Thus ... that is now his name.
Since no pics ... He is coal black with dark rust points and a very weird snow white blaze on his face that goes from right to left. At the end of the blaze is a little pink spot on the left nostril. He also has a tiny white splash on his left side right behind his left leg. AND, the really small gopher ears.
Anyway ... just wanted to let everyone who is kidding this year to watch for abnormal stuff since it seems to be happening all over the United States this year.
Also, I have a totally closed herd. I do not take them off the place and I do not allow strange animals on this ranch AT ALL!